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will remain in power with its hands very much strengthened, for its supportere only had 168 seats in the House which was dissolved on January 21.

COLONY'S HEALTH,

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Notifiable disease in the Colony reported to the last week, as Medical Officor of Health, com- prised the following-

Small-pox; I Chinese imported case in the Kowloon registration district...

Enteric fever (typhoid): 2 Chin- ese cases from the elty-2 deaths during the week.

Close political observers here say that the minimum number of seats Tokyo, Yesterday. Though the results of the election required by the Government Party are not yet known, general satis to keep General Tanaka in power is fall faction is expressed at the quiet-220, for they will be able to ness and orderliness with which back on the Independents to make they have been carried out and also up the necessary majority of 284, with the good attendance at the If they fall short of this minimum. polls, which early reports indicate the Government is defeated, and has been 75 to 80 per cent. of the General Tanaka must go out, to be total electorate.-Reuter.

replaced by the Minsoito Farty, of which Mr. Hamaguchi is the leader. There are those who believe that General Tanaka would "hang on“ if his party secured 210 or even 200 seats. On the other hand, if the Minseito became larger than the Selyukai evon by a few seats, it would be difficult for the Govern- would make life happier or their ment party to count on the support it must be conceded that the rise burdens lighter. At the same time: of the Independents.

Results Coming Through." Results from the cities at pre- sent show the Minseite to be lead- Ing, although it is expected that re- turns from the country districts will.reverse in favour of the Seiyukai..

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Cerebro-spinal fever: 1 Chinese case from the city-1 death.

Influenza (which is not notif.

able): & deaths during the week.

Proletarian Personalities. Impartial observers believe that the success of the proletarian į parties depends largely upon the personalities of the candidates. It the liat and see what sort of men ts, therefore, necessary to look over

are running for Parliamentary seats on the afde of Labour and

The Tokyo prefecture has turned 17 Minseito members, Seiyukai supporters and one pro-

The present campaign is, there-of the proletariat is a significant

element in Japanese politics. fetarian, the well-known Professor fore, being waged very largely as Abe, leader of the social democrats, between the Selyukai and the while the Oauka prefecture has Minseito, but the outside world will elected 13 Minseito members, five be interested in witnessing the rise Seiyukai members, two proletarians) of what are

called here the Pro- and one of the Businessmen's party letarian partics. Supporters of the Bunji Suzuki, chairman of the Gen- latter hope they will secure 30 seats eral Labour Federation, who was in the coming elections for this elected by a large majority-Reu- would give them the balance of power, as between the Government and the Opposition, which would enable them to dictate their terms either

ter,

HARD FIGHT BETWEEN SEIYUKAI & MINSEITO.

THE INTELLECTUALS..

Osaka, Feb. 11.

the farmer. They include many intellectual men, brought up under

Christian Influence, who have

the Seiyukai or the .travelled abroad, and are closely Mingeito. That is the most interest-identified with important seats of ing point in the present campaign, learning.

although pessimista predict that out

For instance. Mr. Ikuo Oyama,

of 76 proletarians only 10 or 15 the head of the Labour Farmer Japan is now in the throes of a may be returned, certainly not Party, was formerly a political general election. Billposting and more than 20. A clear and con- editor of the Osaka "Asah!" and stumping speeches are being vigor-vincing explanation is lacking for later a professor of political science ously pushed by over 900 candidates this pessimism. Probably it is due in the Waseda University. He is In the 122 constituencies through to the knowledge that the Japanese how an out-and-out Marxist. out Japan. Of these candidates, farmers and working-men do not

The Social Democratic Party is 333 are for the Government and like to be classed as "Musan led by Professor Isoh Abe, of the| Kaikyu" (literally translated, "non- Waseda University. The Japanese property owning class"). They all fans call him the "Father of Base dream of becoming landlords and ball," for it was he who created the capitalists. Socialism is only half Waseda Nines. Incidentally he is understood by them, and they do the father of young Tamio Abe, who

of not see in the policies the

Is a Japanese tennis player in the Proletarian parties anything that

forthcoming Davis-Cup matches. Prof: Abe is a noted scholar in sociology and a popular and respect- ed leader among the rising genera- tion of Japan.

456 against it, while 127 are inde- pendents.

They may be

classified as fol- lows:-

For the Government. Seiyukui

339

333

Against the Government.

Minseita

333

Kakushinto

16

Business Men

80

Proletariat

76

455

Independente

Total

∙127

916

The Independents include a large number of men, who are inclined to side with the Government.

There are 466 seats in the House of Representatives, and the follow. ing forecast is made by many as kely to be not very wide of the mark:

Selyukal

Minseito

All othera

220

200 46

466

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Two brilliant literary stars also counted among the Proletarian candidates, Kan Kikuchi and S. Fujimori.

It is true that among the 76 candidates there are

many who

have been manual workers, but, those who have a real chance of entering the Legislature belong to. the intellectual class.

One serious handicap for the Proletarian parties is lack of cam- nasets lie in palga funds. Their their power of speech. This weapon is dreaded by Government candid atea. Cases of serious interference with the freedom of speech are reported. Mr. Oyama says that his utterances have often been inter- rupted by the police in the course. of his strenuous stumping tour throughout the country. Mr. Oyama is running in the Kagawa Prefecture,, and his opponent is Mr. Mitsuchi, Minister of Finance. -Reuter.

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